Request for tenders, Reversals Frequency Test, Relational Frame Theory, Right First Time, Rat für Forschung und Technologieentwicklung (German: Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development).

Darjeeling Gorkha Autonomous Hill Council, originally known as Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC), now GHC is an autonomous body that looks after the administration of the District of Darjeeling in the state of West Bengal, India.

The American Miscellaneous Society formed in 1952 when Office of Naval Research geophysicists Gordon Lill and Carl Alexis found themselves handling research proposals that fit into no existing scientific categories.

Secondary or shear wave (sometimes called an elastic S-wave) is one of the two main types of elastic body waves that move through the body of an object, unlike surface waves. The S-wave moves as a transverse wave, so motion is perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation. See p-wave.

Seismic wave can travel through gases, elastic solids, and liquids, including the Earth. Can be produced by earthquakes and recorded by seismometers. This primary wave is faster than the S-wave. Discovery of the speed increase of p-waves across Lehmann Discontinuity suggests Earth has a solid core.

Very small type (fineprint), usually at the end of a document or in an inconspicuous place within it, containing details of which the reader must be informed but to which the source or publisher may not wish to call attention.

1. Expose to financial hardship or bankruptcy by the accumulation of small expenses. 2. Barbara Ehrenreich book that investigates the impact of 1996 welfare reform on the "working poor" in the US. See: variety store & five and ten & five and dime & dimestore.

n: type of mass wasting involving gradual downhill movement of soil and regolith. May be caused by the alternate expansion and contraction of surface material (by freezing and thawing, or wetting and drying) upward at right angles to the slope and downward through gravity.

From the famous phrase by a Roman lampoonist named Juvenails, "Mens Sana In Corpore Sano" (If you pray to God, you should pray for a sound mind in a sound body) the late founder of ASICS, Kihachiro Onitsuka took the initial letters of the phrase, changing the "Mens" to "Anima" which gives more of an active nuance of the mind. Go to Anima Sana In Corpore Sano

See: Anima Sana in Corpore Sano Est. Kobe, Japan 1949 with products today that are almost all PVC free. Those made either 100% recycled material or in part will soon exceed one thousand items, and have been awarded ISO14001 certification. They believe sport has a positive effect on the body and soul, and has a universal meaning that overcomes cultural differences and contributes to improve solidarity.

The motto Ancora Imparo is attributed to Michelangelo and means 'I am still learning' or "Still, I am learning". It is also the motto of the University of Monash founded in Australia 1958, with campuses in Malaysia and South Africa.

The Delaware Bay region is home to the largest population of the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), found along the western shores of the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to the Yucatan. Another three species live in the coastal waters from Japan to Indonesia. Related to scorpions, ticks and land spiders, horseshoe crabs have their own classification (Class Merostomata). Each spring during the high tides of the new and full moons, thousands of horseshoe crabs descend on the Delaware Bay shoreline to spawn. Males, two-thirds the size of their mates, cluster along the water's edge as the females arrive. With glove-like claws on its first pair of legs, the male hangs on to the female's shell and is pulled up the beach to the high tide line. The female pauses every few feet to dig a hole and deposit as many as 20,000 green, birdshot-sized eggs. The male then fertilizes the eggs as he is pulled over the nest. After the spawning is complete, the crabs leave and the waves wash sand over the nest. Despite their size and intimidating appearance, horseshoe crabs are not dangerous. It's tail, while menacing, is not a weapon. Instead, the tail is used to plow the crab through the sand and muck, to act as a rudder, and to right the crab when it accidentally tips over. Their central mouth is surrounded by its legs and while harmless, it is advisable to handle a horseshoe crab with care since you could pinch your fingers between the two parts of its shell while holding it. Horseshoe crabs have 2 compound eyes on the top of their shells with a range of about 3 feet. The eyes are used for locating mates. Horseshoe crabs can swim upside down in the open ocean using their dozen legs and a flap hiding nearly 200 flattened gills to propel themselves. Horseshoe crabs feed mostly at night and burrow for worms and mollusks. Horseshoe crabs grow by molting and emerge 25 percent larger with each molt. After 16 molts (9-12 years) they will be fully grown adults. The medical profession uses an extract from the horseshoe crab's blue, copper-based blood called lysate to test the purity of medicines. Certain properties of the shell have also been used to speed blood clotting and to make absorbable sutures.

The first use of tag clouds on a high-profile website was on the photo sharing site Flickr based on Zeitgeist a visualization of Web site referrers. Tag clouds have also been popularized by Del.icio.us, Redrover and Technorati. The first published appearance of a tag cloud, or weighted list as the "subconscious files" in Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs."

Chumby™ is Wi-Fi that you can squeeze. This bean bag with a 3.5-inch touch screen and speakers, provides streaming access to social networking sites, podcasts, interactive games, sports scores and stock tips. Update your Twitter by shaking your Chumby™. Configure a message for each orientation. You will have three options on shake and one each on east, west, and south orientations. Chumby™ delivers your favorite parts of the Internet, with over 1,000 widgets from CBS, MTV Networks, New York Times, and Weather Channel Interactive. Chumby™ also offers user generated content as well as thousands of Internet radio stations, the ability to share photos, video conferencing, e-cards and more with family and friends. Stephen Tomlin, CEO Chumby™ from headquarters in San Diego, CA. link

The language of the Sun; characters like ancient Sanskrit. Of this ancient mystery language, Blavatsky says there was "during the youth of mankind, one language, one knowledge, one universal religion" (I, 341). In this idea, H.P.B. is echoing Ralston Skinner, who in a passage quoted in The Secret Doctrine postulates "an ancient language which modernly and up to this time appears to have been lost, the vestiges of which, however, abundantly exist" (I, 308).

Kumbum tree is supposed to grow only in Tibet and to have sprung originally from one of the hairs of the Lama Tsong-Kha-pa, an avatar of the Buddha. Blavatsky quotes an account by the Abbe Huc, who says that the leaves and, if the bark is peeled off, different characters appear on the inner layers. The writing on the Kumbum tree is in the Sansar language and contains in extenso the whole history of creation, and the sacred books of Buddhism.

The term hypochondria was coined by the ancient Greeks from Hypo = below + Chondros = cartilage (of the ribs). It was their opinion that the set of symptoms originated just below the ribs (i.e. in the upper abdomen). So, sit up straight and don't slouch. They also believed that the psychological symptoms which often accompanied the ailment were the result of the illness. See: cyberchondria.

The Beatles filmed part of the Magical Mystery Tour film in Newquay. (Scenes were filmed at the Atlantic Hotel and Towan Beach). Seaside resort and fishing port on the north Atlantic coast of Cornwall, Great Britain. A quay is a wharf or bank where ships and other vessels are loaded. A quay may be constructed parallel or perpendicular to the bank of a waterway. In 1439 the local Burghers applied to Bishop Lacey of Exeter for leave and funds to build a "New quay" - word is commonly used in the UK. link

Hebrew from Askenazic Jewish tradition: po nikbar or po nitman, meaning "Here Lies" and Sephardic custom is matzevet kevurat, meaning "the tombstone of the grave." matzevah, Matzeivah (stone pillar, monument) matzevat even (pillar of stone) matzevet (monument, idol images, stone pillars, monuments).ת.נ.צ.ב.ה. is customarily put on the bottom of a monument. These letters are an acronym for the Hebrew words תה�? נפשו/ה צרורה בצרור החיי�? (t'hay nafsho/ah tzrurah b'tzror hachaim), "May his/her soul be bound up in the bond of life." This paraphrases the words that Abigail told King David in I Samuel 25:29, "But my lord's soul shall be bound in the bond of life with the L-rd your G‑d."